Biennial Survey Of Education In The United States 1930 1932 Bulletin 1933 No 2 Chapter Vii

This bulletin provides the seventh chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1930-32, which has been published in separate chapters dealing with specific segments of the educational system. The purpose of this publication is to make available information on educational legislation enacted during 1931 and 1932. Probably in no previous biennium have there been more legislative sessions among the American commonwealths. During this period every State had a regular legislative session, and the governors of approximately three-fourths of the States called their respective legislatures into special session to wrestle with the serious problems growing out of the economic depression. Legislative activity relating to education during this period attained unusual prominence. Every State legislature was confronted with the vital and difficult problem of securing adequate educational facilities in the face of diminishing public revenue. The task of analyzing and reviewing legislation enacted during this unusual period present unusual difficulties. Numerous enactments affecting education are found to be considerably involved and include many implications which have been perplexing even to school authorities within the respective States. Owing to the necessity for brevity and the multiplicity of enactments relating to education, only these certain phases or subjects are here reviewed: (1) State administrative organization; (2) State school support; (3) Local school administration; (4) Efficiency in the business management of schools, budgets, etc.; (5) Teachers; (6) Teacher institutes; (7) School attendance; (8) High schools; (9) Tuition and transportation; (10) Textbooks; (11) Curriculum; (12) School health and safety; (13) Kindergartens; (14) Adult and vocational education; (15) Handicapped and dependent children; and (16) Educational surveys. An index is included. (Contains 5 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].